lakota – Oct 18, 2002 12:00 AM

Vermilion Student, Damon Haan, came in to do a wolf check this morning and found MacKenzie and Lakota had dug out of their pack holding area and were in the secure, secondary fence area. Curator Lori Schmidt arrived and greeted Mackenzie and Lakota and they followed her back into the pen. The area were they dug out was located. The wolves appear to have dug by one of the new gates that were scheduled to get a concrete pad on Monday. Apparently, Lakota wanted to enter the retirement pen sooner than planned. Center member Roger Halverson (who happened to be visiting the Center), Damon Haan, Alicia Pansiak, Gretchen Diessner and Lori Schmidt spent the day in the rain, snow, sleet and wind, pouring concrete and increasing the ground wire fencing on the retirement pen.